Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Steven Camarota

The whole idea that 'America has a 5 percent unemployment rate and therefore clearly we need lots of immigrant labor' is very foolish.

Joe Biden

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

Michael Mandelbaum

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.

Dennis Hastert

The United States of America is prosperous and free. But storm clouds gather on our horizon. Our national security is challenged by the continued malfeasance of Saddam Hussein. Our economic security is challenged by a growing worldwide recession. Our future is bedeviled by too many schools that perform poorly and by a Social Security system in need of reform,

Jalal Talabani

The United States of America is not the lawyer of the Kurdish people, it is a big state, with its own policy, and it has its own national interest.

Ezra Taft Benson

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

George H. W. Bush

The United States may not necessarily be dependent on foreign aid, but the donation presented by Kuwait is an expression of solidarity with the people of America and a small contribution in efforts to help the victims of the hurricane,

Jay Harrington

The way this tournament is run, this is the last true tournament in America. You can't go anywhere in the country and find the way that people treat you here. ... We've been treated like kings, and we appreciate it.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Mariano Puerta

I was having dinner in the players' restaurant when the call came.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Helen Thomas

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

Han Suyin

I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.

Gustave Courbet

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

Gustave Courbet

When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Joshua Simmons

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Ken Smith

That's a lot. It was one of the most we've made in my history.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Alec Waugh

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

Alberto Juantorena

Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Ali Babacan

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

Algernon Blackwood

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Sarah MacLean

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

Bobby Jackson

They just wanted it more. We did all the right things in the first 12 minutes, and did all the wrong things from then on out.